Boston 1775

Here are a couple of first-person interpretations of Revolutionary figures to enjoy next week. Wednesday, 19 March, 7 to 8 P.M. Affection...

Last spring I worked with the Pursuit of History, the nonprofit founded by Lee Wright to organize History Camp, to produce a weekend of talk...

This Saturday, 28 September, will see a number of local events linked to Revolutionary history. 10:00 to 11:00 A.M. How We Remember Mass...

Yesterday we left Dr. Abel Prescott, Jr., trying to return home to Concord after alerting militia officers in Framingham and Sudbury t...

One of the questions after my online talk for the Army Heritage Center Foundation last week led me to discussing Dr. Samuel Prescott and ho...

On Saturday, 29 October, the Wayside Inn in Sudbury will host the annual Revolutionary War reenactment known as the “Battle of Red Horse Tav...

About a century ago, Frank Warren Coburn of Lexington set out to document the names of the militiamen who fought in the Battle of Lexingto...

I took this photograph at the 2003 Sudbury Colonial Faire and Muster of Fyfe & Drum. It was the first time I’d seen the William Diamond...

Yesterday I shared the video preview of my presentation at History Camp America 2021, coming up on 10 July. There are seven more video pre...

Via Vimeo , here’s a preview of my video presentation “Washington in Cambridge and the Siege of Boston” prepared for History Camp America ...

The Wayside Inn Foundation, the nonprofit wing of Longfellow’s Wayside Inn in Sudbury , will host two online events in the next couple of we...

Ten years ago, I noted the legend of Lydia Taft , a widow in Uxbridge who was said to have voted in a town meeting in 1756. That stat...

When we left Capt. William Brown and Ens. Henry DeBerniere , they were in a back room of Henry Barnes ’s house in Marlborough , listening a...

As I discussed yesterday , the militia companies from the western side of Sudbury were better equipped than those on the east side. Under ...

I’m cleverly using yesterday’s break for event announcements to segue away from Lexington on 19 Apr 1775 and on to Concord . Or, actually...

The Patriots’ Day season starts this Saturday, 6 April, with three annual events in three towns : Bedford Pole Capping in Bedford, 10:30...

In connection with other historical organizations and venues, the Freedom’s Way National Heritage Area and the American Antiquarian Societ...

When I was in Williamsburg last week, George Wildrick kindly alerted me to the fact that Muzzleloader magazine had reviewed The Road to C...

In 22 Dec 1788, the Rev. David McClure wrote from Windsor, Connecticut , to one of his childhood friends from Boston: Dear Sir,—On the ...

Saturday, 17 September, is this year’s Cambridge Discovery Day. The city’s historical commission is promoting free walking tours in several ...